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netsharctoday at 2:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

In English, unlike German, "1." doesn't mean "1st"/"first".


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telesillatoday at 2:53 PM

I find it ironic that in Europe the defacto language for intercommunication is from a country that chose to disassociate itself from the EU. In all, I think it's great that every EU country uses the English language with all their idiosyncrasies and hell be damned about "proper" english.

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blelltoday at 2:57 PM

You can also tell the guy is German because of the strange hyphen between EU and Sovereignty. :P

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